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Originally Posted by HarryT
It is, but the suggestion has been made that it's sexist to have half-naked women on book covers. What I'm asking is why it's not sexist to have half-naked men.
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Well, now...
A lot of women seem to object to being portrayed as sexual objects--most men, however, can only *hope* to ever be seen as a sexual object.
A lot of political scandals are at heart about small, not terribly sigificant issues, but the followup atempts to cover up or spin the issue is what triggers the general outrage.
Here, it seems the situation has snowballed beyond the matter of the tastefulness of the cover into a fiery debate over the followup attempt to justify the cover and *the way* the attemp was made, the debating tactics and the language used.
I find neither cover offensive but since I have a long history of exposure to comic book art, I have a fairly high tolerace for stylized art. That said, a lot of comic book art from the height of the Image era (90's) was positively cringeworthy.
Ultimately, artistic tastes evolve over time and the same is true about culture and mores. Digging in the heels and dismissing somebody else's right to be offended solely on historical grounds is not likely to be effective in defusing controversy.
It certainly wasn't in this case.